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Suspended accounts or content will be notified with an in-product alert on the account or content, visible to the account owner.
If your account is showing this banner, please first review our terms, rules, and policies, and bring your account into compliance before appealing. Continue reading below for the most common reasons for suspensions.
- To appeal an account suspension, please fill out this form.
- To cancel membership on a suspended account, click here.
The most common reason for suspensions are violations of our policies regarding spam and site misuse.
We do not allow spam or misuse of Medium. All spam or misuse will be immediately removed from Medium without notification. Examples of spam or misuse include, but are not limited to:
- Posting content primarily to drive traffic to, or increase the search rankings of, an external site, product, or service;
- Affiliate marketing in the guise of reviews of products or services, product testing (does it work?), etc., whether generated via AI or manually written;
- Using deception to generate revenue or traffic
- Abusing our Medium Partner Program
- Advertising or participating in bounty campaigns, pump and dumps, reviewing for reward, or other forms of brigading or inauthentic activity.
- Advertising or promoting airdrops or related activities unless you are an authorized representative of the project. You must have an email address on the domain of that project.
Accounts and posts violating this policy will be considered spam under Medium’s rules, and will be suspended without notice.
Cryptocurrency and Web3 Project Requirements
Content in violation of our rules on Cryptocurrency and Web3 projects will be suspended. Minimum requirements (please see the document linked above for full instructions):
- Include a link to your active project domain in your profile bio.
- Use an email address on your Medium account, which matches that domain. (Gmail, etc. is not allowed)
- Do not advertise or participate in bounties or similar inauthentic activity.
If your account is related to a Cryptocurrency or Web3 Project, do not submit an appeal until you have verified that your bio and email are updated as per the above instructions.
Less common reasons:
Content deemed illegal by the Digital Services Act (DSA):
We may suspended accounts or content that has been deemed illegal by the DSA in the European Union. You will be specifically notified if this applies to you. To appeal DSA restrictions, including out-of-court mediation, please fill out this form. Please include specific information regarding your DSA appeal grounds.
How we assess Medium content:
All accounts and content on Medium are assessed in terms of these terms and policies using both automated detection and human review. Violations of our rules may result in consequences such as suspension of accounts, suspension of provided content, restriction of ability to monetize in our Partner Program, restriction of content or account visibility, or restriction of distribution. Medium has the sole authority and final decision as to whether content or behavior violates our rules.
We use human review for all account appeals submitted via our available forms.